Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEAD AT THE ANNUAL MEETING MAKCH 4 , 1929 G S P To the Members of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Directors begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1928 : At the Thirty -sixth Annual Meeting of the Society held March 3, 1928, the following named officers and directors were elected : President : Charles P, Keith. Vice - Presidents : John Frederick Lewis, Edward Robins, Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. Secording Secretary : Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary : Miss M. Atherton Leach. Historian : Frank Worthington Melvin , Treasurer : Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors to serve three years : Charles F. Jenkins, George Henderson, Ralph Beaver Strassburger. St. George L. Sioussat , Fh.D., Professor of American History in the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a brilliant address, entitled ‘ 1 Some Thoughts upon Biography and Biographers. " The usual supper was then served. At a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held January 15, 1928, a special committee, consisting of President Keith , Miss Leach and Messrs. Stewart and Spofford, was appointed to arrange for the issuance of an appeal to the membership for funds to be applied to the core of The Gilbert Cope Collection. This Collection has been found to be of greater magnitude than could have been foreseen . One hundred and five manuscript records books have been re- arranged , repaired, rebound and added to the Society !s Collec tions ; a normal five years increase in a few months. Manuscript family sketches, genealogical notes and correspondence have been alphabetically assembled making, to date, thirty - three folio volumes of approximately three hundred pages each and covering the letter F. These arc now in the bindery . Over one fourth of thi3 branch of the work has been accomplished in addition to that of the record books. It will be easily recognized that with the Society ’a present executive force, the emergency of this avalanche of high -grade material necessitated an additional force and an increased pay roll. This increase has largely been met by the twelve hundred dollar fund so generously contributed by the membership. It greatly embarrasses the Board of Directors to put forth another appeal for the conclusion of this vital work , but not to do so would seriously hamper the Society ’s growth in other and likewise important directions. At the March meeting it was upon motion ordered that Mrs, Hampton ( 307 ) 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty -seventh Annual Report . 308 . L Carson, Chairman of The Associate Committee of Women, be invited to attend the meetings of the Board of Directors. At the October meeting the thanks of the Board were tendered Miss Leach for special work daring summer months in connection with the Cope Collection. Appreciation and thanks were extended to The Lan- caster County Historical Society for loan of valuable material for photostat purposes and to Mr. William F. Worner, its Librarian, for his fine co -operation with the aims of the Society, To fill the vacancy created by the death of Miss Wharton, Miss Leach was, at this meeting, elected a vice president, but has since declined re- . election Number Two, Volume X of the Society 's Publications has been dis tributed to the membership. - Through the recently formed Bibliographical Records Committee, Miss Leach , Chairman, a number of noteworthy additions have been made to the Society 's Collections ; many church records have been located, and a concrete effort begun toward copying gravestone inscriptions in various P parts of the State. The increase in the Society 's membership, collections and finances, over that reported in March, 1928, gives cause for satisfaction and encouragement, particularly when accompanied by the gratifying prospect of continuance Sixty new members were enrolled during the year. 659 Number of members, January 1, 1928 21 ... .. ..... .. Loss by death . . .. S Resignations Dropped ... . . m .f 7 10 38 G 621 60 Elected and qualified Number of members, January 1, 1929 Tho membership classified is as follows : Honorary Annual Life Publication Fund 681 2 451 205 24 682 During the year the additions to membership were : Life Members Hon , John M. Broomall Garrett A. Brownback Williamson Buckman Miss Elizabeth Brockway Crispin ( Madame Oliviero Tripeovich) M Jackson Crispin Mrs Ellis Jackson Mrs. Daniel C Lewis . 1929 . . Orra E. Monnette T. Morris Perot Miss Anna Randolph Custer E. Ross A. 8. W Rosenbach, LL.D. Ricardo W. Staudt Mrs. William H. Trotter Mrs. Blanche Lonsdale West . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Da util Mxlnz At the stated meeting of February, the Directors, with profound regret, recorded the death of their esteemed associate, David Milne, who died January 24, 1929.. Mr. Milne was born in Philadelphia July 24, 18o9 , the son of Caleb Jones Milne of Philadelphia and his wife, Sarah Margaretta Shea of Pittsburgh. His preliminary education was obtained at the Episcopal Academy, his bachelor ’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania , with subsequent degrees of M A and Ph.D. from the same institution * The ancestral roots of the present lie buried deep in the dim past. Paternally, Mr. Milne had his in the ancient city of Aberdeen , Scotland, which has given to this country many men of eminence. His grandfather, David Milne, for whom lie was named and from whom he inherited the Stirling Scotch qualities of industry, integrity and general uprightness, was a native of Aberdeen. He settled in Philadelphia in 1827, where lie spent the subsequent forty -five years of his prosperous life. Mr. Milne was not , however, wholly Scotch Irish, Gorman and English commingled and brought to him the unusual combination of firmness with tolerance, tenacity with genial humor , positive beliefs with temperate expression thereof . It is for these attributes, joined to his gentleness of manner and loyalty to the ideals of this Society , that he will long be remembered by the Board to which he was elected in 1916, having been a member of the Society from 1903* Manufacturer, banker, philanthropist, scholar, economist, ami clubman , Mr. Milne ’s interests were varied , and upon all he bestowed the due measure of his time, lie was a member of the firm of C J , Milne & {Sons, manufacturers of textile fabrics, beginning his business career in the office of a private banking house ; was a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania anil Evans Institute, Director of the United Security Trust Company, a member of the Boaril of Managers of the Polyclinic and Howard Hospitals, and of the Advisory Board of Managers of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, the Sanitarium Association of Phila delphia and the Henry Phipps Institute. He was President of the Penn sylvania Retreat for Blind Mutes and Aged and Infirm Blind Person and of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men. He was also a member of the St * Andrew 's Society as president of which his grand father and father had preceded him in the same office, the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of which lie had likewise been president, The Historical Society- of Pennsylvania , Franklin Institute, Pennsylvania Mu senm , the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a member of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution , lie was affiliated with many other literary, patriotic and social organizations, of which tlie list is too lengthy to give in full He married 29 April, 1896, in Washington, D„ Margaret Love, daughter of Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett , U.S,N,, who with four sons, survives. The Society has lost a friend ; the community a useful citizen .. S P . G . m * f F / uf . . . 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty-seventh Annual Report . 309 Annual Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugene F McFike Mrs. Harry G. Michener George B. Miller Arthur V Morton John Irwin Morton Mrs. Maxfield Parrish John Lupher Porter William F. H. Beed Miss Mary Tesseire Beeves Miss Helen Semple Reginald K. Shober Mrs, Samuel L Shober Joseph Grundy Shryock Mrs. Charles B. Sloan W Evans Smith Mrs. Maude I. Stockbridge Mrs Frederick E Stow Frederick E. Swope Milton Wolf Horatio C Wood . . . . . . John S. Wurts S . Miss Elizabeth D. McMahon P Philip Meredith Allen Mrs Joseph S Bee Miss Mary W Bonsall Miss Anna Linn Bright Mrs J Francis Burns Stanley G Child Edward C Bale Thomas Bay Dille Junius B. Fishbum Miss Elizabeth Wilson Fisher Mrs Guiles Flower Miss Lila M Gandy Mrs Walter Warrington Hartel Mrs Harold C Harvey Mrs Eugene O Hopkins Miss Emily Gilpin Hopkinson Mrs. Paul Sturtevant Howe Mrs. Alexander F. Jamieson Mrs Janet B Stroud Jones Samuel Bunting Lewis Mrs. Bruce Wallace Macdonald Bobert Baird McLain The Board in sorrow reports the death of the following : . Miss Juliana Wood, September 12, 1924 Percy McGraw Mann, October 7, 1927. William Wilson Longstreth, January 31, 1928 Mrs. David Beeves, January 23, 1928 Griffin C. Callahan, February 28, 1928. Edward J. Dooner, April 16, 1928 Mrs. B. F Thomas, May 1, 1928. Albert G Thatcher, May 2, 1928 Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, May 3, 1928 Mrs James H Little William P. Bancroft, April 20, 1928. Major Wendell P Bowman, April 8, 1928, Mrs Bobert F Bobbins Mrs. Ogden B. Wilkinson, June 2, 1928 Foster Conarroe Griffith, June, 1928. Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, July 29, 1928 Ellis D Williams, August 1, 1928 Edwin J. Dewey, October 4, 1928 Mrs G Wilbur Taylor, October 8, 1928 Burnet Landreth, December 2, 1928 Gilbert Cope, December 17, 1928. . G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Collections of the Society number 785 volumes, of which the follow ing were added during the year : 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty - seventh Annual Report , 3 X0 English Friends Records : Cumberland aud Northumberland ; Births, Marriages and Buriala Dorsetshire and Hampshire ; Births, Marriages and Burials Bedfordshire and Hereforahire ; Births, Marriages and Burials. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire ; Births, Marriages and Burials Norfolk and Norwich ; Births, Marriages and Burials. Devonshire ; Marriages, Births and Burials Kent ; Marriages, Births and Burials, . . . . . . Genealogical Data Compiled by Mrs Ashbel Welch 15 Yols. Newbold Family and Connections. ( William Romain Newbold Collec tion.) 12 Vols. Ronaldson Cemetery Records 6 Vols - . . Miscellaneous Records. Records of Grace Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Gravestone Inscriptions, Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack Gravestone Inscriptions, East Swamp Mennonite Cemetery. Foulke, Bringhurst, Claypoole, Evans and Parker Papers. 2 Yols. ( Henry Carvill Lewis Collection.) P . Gilbert Cope Collection : . Arch Street Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Certificates of Removal, 1758-1772 ; Births and Deaths, 1768-1851 Birmingham Monthly Meeting, Records 1813 1908 Bradford Monthly Meeting, Records 1787 1862. Bucks County Tax List 1693 Chester County Court Records, 1681 1710 ; Miscellaneous Meeting Records; Miscellaneous other Records ; Petitions for License, 1717-1750 ; Tax Lists 18 Vols., 1693-1774 ; Various Marriage, Death and Burial Records ; Wills, 4 Vols , 1714-1825 Chester Monthly Meeting Minutes 4 Vols., 1681 1828 ; Marriages and Certificates of Removal, 1704-1733 ; Quarterly Meeting : Minutes, 1683 1711 Concord Monthly Meeting Minutes 1684-1823 ; Quarterly Meeting : Records, 2 Vols. ; Minutes 1756-1767 ; Marriages to 1866. Darby Monthly Meeting Minutes Women 's Meeting 1684 1796 ; Mar riages 1797-1844. Darby, Nottingham and Sadsbury Monthly Meeting. Some records 1682-1868 Delaware County Tax Lists : Brandywine Hundred 1739 ; Christiana Hundred 1745; Wills 1789 1805 Exeter Monthly Meeting. Minutes 1691 1871. Falls Monthly Meeting. Minutes 1696-1877 ; Miscellaneous Papers 1696-1877 Goshen Monthly Meeting. Minutes 2 Vols 1722 1841; Marriages, 1722-1787 ; Certificates of Removal, 1722-1751; Minutes Women 's Meeting 1722-1830. Hopewell Monthly Meeting. Minutes 1759 1791. Kent County, Delaware : Tax List, 1693 S . . . . G . . - . —- . . - - . . . . - . - — . . . 1929 - - - Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 311 Thirty - seventh Annual Report , Lancaster County. Tax Lists 1718-1725. Merion. Tax Lists 1696. Marriages and Deaths in The Friend , 1827 1883, Index to Middletown Monthly Meeting Miscellaneous papers 1698-1889. Montgomery County. Meeting Records, Miscellaneous. New Castle County, Delaware: Tax List, 1693-1697 New Garden Monthly Meeting Records 3 Vols , 1686 1857 ; Minutes 1718-1867 Newark, or Kennett, Monthly Meeting. Records 6 Vols. 1685 1811 Pequa Records of St John ’s Episcopal Church Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Certificates of Removal, 1686 1758 ; Births and Deaths, 1677 1900. Radnor Monthly Meeting. Index, 3 Vols. Redstone Monthly Meeting. Records, 2 Vols.; Minutes 1793-1824 ; Quarterly Meeting: Minutes 1793 1824 ; Women 's 1793-1883. - . . " . . . . . . - - . . - - - . . TJwchlen Monthly Meeting Minutes 1763-1829 Western Quarterly Meeting, Minutes 1758-1779 P Ancestral Charts : . . Chandler Family Cloud Family Cooper Family Cope Notes English and Irish Notes Gilpin Necrology Hickman Diary Historical Notes by Dr George Smith Hoopes Family Notes. Jeferris Family. James, Phillip, Family of : Christiana Hundred, Sharplcss Family Taylor Family Worrell Family Album . . . S . . G . . . . . . , Accessions by g i f t for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered , are: Edward Dean Adams, The Henry Adams Genealogy Nathan Lincoln Blackman. Blackman and Allied Families. Mrs Joseph Bodine. Gravestone Inscriptions ; Greenwich Presbyterian Cemetery Dr, Irwin H-och DeLong pioneer Palatine Pilgrims Franklin D. Edmunds. Marriages and Deaths from The Cape May Ocean Wave, June 5, 1856 to May 21, 1863 Mrs. Warren S. Ely Gravestone Inscriptions ; Tohickon Lutheran and Reformed Graveyards , Mrs. Frank Embery The Philadelphia Repertory } 1810-1811 All printed. Mrs Frederick Enders, Bible Records ; Martin anu Perkins Families Mrs Anita L Eyster Records of Grace Episcopal Church, Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . 1929 . . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty - seventh Annual Report , 312 . . . . Mrs. H L Farr Farr, Haddock and Allied Families The Genealogical Society of New Jersey The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey General Society of Colonial Wars Year Book, 1928 Mrs Ephraim Tomlinson Gill. The Story of a Short Life, Letitia Mat lack, 1724-1732 Harrold E Gillingham Photostats: Will of Bichard Wain ; News paper clipping : Robert Palmer departing from the Province. Edward J Galbally Catholic Sacramental Registers Goshenhoppen, Pennsylvania, Father Schneider ’s Register : Baptisms, 1741-1807 ; Mar riages 1741-1819 ; Burials 1765 1818 Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Father Helbron ’s Register : Baptisms, 1799-1828 ; Marriages 1800-1830 ; Burials, 1800 1819 Lancaster, St Mary ’s : Baptisms, Burials, Marriages, 17871804 St. Augustine ’s, Philadelphia : Baptisms, 1801 1830 ; Marriages 1801-1810. St Joseph ’s : Baptisms 1758-1810 ; Marriages 1758-1836 Holy Trinity: Baptisms 1790-1806 ; Marriages 1791-1803. St. Mary ’s : Minute Book, 1782-1811; Interments 1788-1800 ; Gravestone Inscriptions, 1759-1889 From Records of the American Catholic Historical Society The Historical Soeiety of Pennsylvania Yarnall Family Data. Mrs Anna McDowell Hopkins: The Gordan Family Bible Records ; Data on Wyekoff and McDowell Families Mrs. Livingston E. Jones Bolling Family Chart Mrs, Clarence K Klink Gravestone Inscriptions : Some Revolutionary Soldiers in Pennsylvania ; Blackland Mennonite Cemetery ; East Swamp Mennonite Cemetery ; Friends Burying Ground, Germantown ; Old Grave yard, Kittanning ; Burial Record of Zion Stone Church, Kreidersville, Northampton County ; Private Graveyard Perkasie ; Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia , vol. 2 ; The 240tb Anniversity of the Coming of the First Mennonite Pilgrims and the Founding of Germantown ; Mennonite Year Book and Almanac ; Directory of Boehm ’s Reformed Church ; Sesqui Centennial of Boehm ’s Reformed Church, Blue Bell, Montgomery County ; Protocol Evangelical Reformed Congregation, Whitpain Township, Montgomery County ; Acts and Pro ceedings of Philadelphia Classis of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States ; History of St Michael ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germantown ; William West Bible Record The Lancaster County Historical Society Lancaster County Gravestone Inscriptions : Zion Reformed Graveyard, New Providence ; St Michael ’s Lutheran Graveyard, Strasburg ; Mennonite Graveyard, Strasburg ; Pioneers Buried in Cemetery Wilderness, Old Welsh graveyard ; Jewish Graveyard, Lancaster ; Trinity Lutheran Graveyard, Lancaster ; Marriage Record, First Reformed Church, Lancaster, alphabetically ar ranged Rev Preston A Laury. Historical Sketch of Old Williams Church Many gravestone inscriptions, largely of Lehigh and Northampton counties from private and church burying grounds Miss M Atherton Leach Chronicles of the Bement Family ( manu script ) ; Some Pennsylvania Veterans of the American Revolution, 17901855 ( newspaper notices ) ; Clark and Allied Families ; Marriages and Deaths from The Philadelphia Repertory, May 5, 1810 to April 13, 1811, . . . . . . . . - . . - . . . . . - . — . . . . - G S . . . . P . . - - . . . . 1929 . . . . . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania - PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty -seventh, Annual Report , 313 . John Frederick Lewis Fragments of Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families, ancient manuscript ; Manuscript Genealogical Account of the British Peerage; Lewis Pedigree ; Lewis Family Record, Compiled by G Albert Lewis, 2 Vols Mrs Milnor Ljungstedt County Court Note Books Eugene Fairfield MacPike. Pyke and MacPike Families Mrs William M. Mervine. Book of Miscellaneous Records J E Sturgis Nagle Bible Records of Kern, Bruner, Derbyshire and Nagle Families New Jersey Sociey of Pennsylvania, Year Book 1927 Chester Lathrop Pack Historic Roadsides in New Jersey Samuel Longstreth Parrish. Early Reminiscences Thomas Hamilton Hoge Patterson In Memoriam, Mrs Esther Holmes Hoge Patterson Ormond Rambo, Jr., Biographical Sketches of the Rambos of America Clarence V. Roberts. Oaths of Allegiance, Bucks County 1777-1778 Mrs Frank Rockwood Gardiner, Richardson, Moore Families of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois and Minnesota Mrs Mary P Savage Savage, Tisdale and Allied Families Mrs Edward S. Sayres Bringhurst, Claypoole, Evans, Foulke and Parker Papers, 2 Vols. ( Henry Oarvill Lewis Collection ) Henry W Scarborough Photostat Copy of Map of the George Haworth Tract, Buckingham Township, Bucks County Mrs, H D Sheppard Epitaphs on Tombstones of Revolutionary Soldiers in Adams County ; Black Family Data Mrs. Charles M Steinmetz Records of Host and Olcy Reformed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P . . . . . . S . . . . . . . . . . . . . Churches The University of North Carolina Press. The James Sprunt Histor . ical studies Mrs. Mary C Whitney - . Whitney, Wynne and Allied Families. G . Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P. KEITH, President . ERNEST SPOFFORD, Recording Secretary . . REPORT OF TREASURER FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1928 PERMANENT FUND. Receipts . Balance January 1, 1928 Life Memberships $1000, 00 50.00 Subscriptions to Publication Fund 325.00 Payment of loan $1000.00 United States Steel Bond called May 1, 1928 1100.00 1500,00 Third liberty Loan called October 1, 1928 $1781.09 Balanee January 1, 1929 $5756.90 . ... 1929 * # P 4 * Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania * 3975.00 PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty -seventh Annual Report . 314 . Investments The following securities were purchased with the proceeds of life mem bership fees: - . Electric and Peoples 4% Trust Certificate, . Germantown Cricket Club, o% registered 2 d. mtg, bond ( taken in payment of two life memberships by resolution of Board of Directors ) . $7600. Fourth Liberty Loan. 14 shares Philadelphia Traction Company. 70 shares United Gas Improvement Company. $2000 $100 . Joseph Eddy Gillingham Legacy 11 shares Philadelphia Traction Company, . Josiak Granville Leach Fund . Fourth Liberty Loan. $1000 . $1000 . P $1800. Josiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund Fourth Liberty Loan. . Anne Hannum Cresson Legacy Ivan Apartment Bonds, 5% % . . Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy ( Mrs James Mifflin ) . . $2000, Pennsylvania R R. Cons. Mtg bonds 4 $50. Fourth Liberty Loan ^ S . %. . Anna Justina Magee Fund. . . $4000 United States Steel Corporation bonds 5% $3500. Fourth Liberty Loan G . CURRENT FUND. Receipts. Balance January 1, 1928 Dues $1965, 25 Permanent Fund 704.50 Joseph Eddy Gillingham Legacy Div 11 shares Fhilada Traction 44.00 nt. $1000 Third LibJosiah Granville Leach Fund erty Loan 42.50 Josiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund Int. $1800 76.51 Fourth Liberty Loan . . Anne Hunnum Cresson Legacy Int. $1000. Ivan Apt Bond 55.00 Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy Int. $2000 P R R. Mtg 90.00 2.13 Int. 50. Fourth Liberty Loan 225.00 Anna Justina Magee Fund Int. $5000 U S Steel .. 106.25 Int $2500 Fourth Liberty Loan Contributions for copying English Friends Records 200.00 $3.35 $ . . — . .. . . . . . . 1929 — — . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania .. PGM Vol X No.3 Thirty -seventh Annual Report . 315 . Contributions to Gilbert Cope Fund . 1261.15 Photostating Philadelphia Wills 1923 to 1927 in elusive 802.23 Extra invitations to Annual Meeting 24.00 Sale of reprints 3.25 Bale of Publications 35.75 Photostat prints 2000.53 Interest on. deposits 60.83 7698.88 $7702.23 . Payments Memorial flowers Dues, Pennsylvania ’ederation of Historical Societies Copy of Records of First Congregational Church . Marriages and Deaths from Bedford Gazette Mennonite Gravestone Inscriptions Annual Meeting Publication Vol. X, No 2 Paper for mounting Cope Collection, etc . . Copying English Friends Records . . Binding Transfer dues to Permanent Fund Repayment of loan to Permanent Fund .. Rent of safe deposit box Purchase of safe Publications - . — P . * $35.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 48.00 416.40 603.02 194.04 413.87 649.74 5.00 325.00 5.00 10.00 17.49 1731.53 228.66 125.00 2086.25 . .. .. ... . S .. * Photostat Stationery, postage and sundries G Christmas gifts Salaries Balance January 1, 1929 6914.00 $788.23 OGDEN DUNGAN WILKINSON, Treasurer , 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3